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Dangers in Performance Max Campaigns

If you follow my blog and newsletters, you definitely have heard me warn against the dangers of letting Google run your Google Ads campaigns. Performance Max campaigns are another example of a "black box" type ad spend where Google takes your ad dollars and spends them in a way that you have less and less [...]

“Other” Search Terms Accounting for Over 33% of Budget and Growing

Back in September, I pointed out some of the sneaky ways Google has been slowly creeping in and removing more and more control from the advertiser to run their campaigns efficiently. One "Google Creep" method that was discussed and got a lot of reaction from the industry was limiting which search terms that the advertiser [...]

COVID-19 Time to Get Your Digital Marketing Metrics In Order

Since March, most businesses have seen their Google Analytics or other forms of digital metrics become a garbled mess. The world has changed and whether this is the beginning of a new normal of some type, or a huge blip on the metrics radar, the last month or so is going to be hard to [...]

Measuring Small Business SEO and PPC Success

I have had a few talks recently with clients and prospects about how to know what is even working with SEO and Google Ads or PPC.  I have even sat with prospects recently that spent thousands of dollars a month with a company and didn't even know what they were doing for them. They provided [...]

Is Your Small Business Measuring Digital Success Properly?

Many small businesses I work with find it difficult to understand what is working and what isn't.  Often, we get stuck in the trap of just focusing on traffic, when it isn't too difficult to dig into the data a little more and make better measurements that lead to better decisions.  Sites selling goods directly [...]

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